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 Legends of the Mill. 159 "'Psht! eat! You'll burn yourself!' cried the tailor, and frightened it away from the fire. "'Psht! eat! You'll burn yourself! says the tailor to me/ said the eat to the other cats ; and they all began to dance and jump about, but the next moment they tried again to upset the pot. " ' Psht ! eat ! You'll burn yourself ! ' shouted the tailor so loudly, that he frightened them away. They scampered away over the floor, the one over the other, and began jumping and dancing as before. " They then formed a circle outside the ring, and took to dancing round it, quicker and quicker, till the tailor thought the mill was going round too. The cats glared at him with such big, terrible eyes, as if they were going to eat him. " But while they were in the middle of the dance, the eat which nad been trying to upset the pot put her paw inside the ring as if she wanted to get hold of the tailor. But when he saw this he loosened his sheath-knife and held it ready. All at once the eat thrust her paw inside the ring again, but the tailor was quick as lightning and chopped the paw off. The cats set up a terrible howl, and away they rushed through the door as fast as they could.